Jocelyn Aloha Pumehana Alo (born September 23, 1998) is an American professional softball player for the
Oklahoma City Spark
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of the
Association of Fastpitch Professionals
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(AFP). She played
college softball
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for the
Oklahoma Sooners
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. Alo was named 2018
NFCA National Freshman of the Year
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, and named
USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year
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in 2021 and 2022. She is the
NCAA Division I
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career leader in
home runs
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.
Alo was drafted first overall by the Smash It Vipers in the inaugural WPF draft.
High school career
Alo attended
James Campbell High School
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in
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where she was a two-time Gatorade State High School Player of the Year and led her team to three state championships. In 2015, she also won the
HHSAA girls state championship in
wrestling
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at 184 pounds. She retired from wrestling after her sophomore year. During her junior season, she hit .612 with eight
home run
In baseball, a home run (abbreviated HR) is scored when the Baseball (ball), ball is hit in such a way that the batting (baseball), batter is able to circle the bases and reach home plate safe (baseball), safely in one play without any error ( ...
s, 30
run batted in
A run batted in or runs batted in (RBI) is a statistic in baseball and softball that credits a batter for making a play that allows a run to be scored (except in certain situations such as when an error is made on the play). For example, if th ...
(RBI), 13
runs scored and a 1.726
on-base plus slugging
On-base plus slugging (OPS) is a sabermetric baseball statistic calculated as the sum of a player's on-base percentage and slugging percentage. The ability of a player both to get on base and to hit for power, two important offensive skills, are ...
(OPS). During the 2016 title game, she went 2-for-3 with a home run and four RBI and was subsequently named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. She was also named a first team All-Oahu Interscholastic Association selection. As a senior in 2017, she hit .571 with 12 home runs, 27 RBI and a 1.449
slugging percentage
In baseball statistics, slugging percentage (SLG) is a measure of the batting productivity of a hitter. It is calculated as total bases divided by at-bats, through the following formula, where ''AB'' is the number of at-bats for a given player, an ...
.
College career
During her freshman year in
2018
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, Alo started all 62 games (39 as designated player, 23 in left field). She led the nation in home runs (30), home runs per game (0.48) and
total bases
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(170), and led the team in
batting average
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Cricket
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(.420), home runs (30), RBIs (72), total bases (170), slugging (.977),
on-base percentage
In baseball statistics, on-base percentage (OBP) measures how frequently a batting (baseball), batter reaches base (baseball), base. An official Major League Baseball (MLB) statistic since 1984, it is sometimes referred to as on-base average (OBA ...
(.549) and
walks (14). She finished the season ranked second nationally in RBIs (72), second in total bases (159), third in slugging (.970), and fourth in RBI (71) and RBI per game (1.20). Her 30 home runs tied the Oklahoma single-season record, the Big 12 single-season record and the NCAA Division I freshman single-season record.
[ Following an outstanding season, she was named ]NFCA National Freshman of the Year
The NFCA National Freshman of the Year is an award given by Schutt Sports to the best college softball
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, Big 12 Freshman of the Year, first-team All-Big 12, All-Big 12 Freshman team, and a first-team All-American.
During her sophomore year in 2019
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, Alo started 59 games (56 at right field, three as designated player), where she tied for the team lead in RBIs (56), and ranked second in hits (66) and on-base percentage (.484). Following the season she was named first-team All-Big 12. During her junior year in 2020
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, Alo started all 24 games for the Sooners across the outfield and as designated player in a season that was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
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. She finished the year with a slash line of .427/.813/.506 to go with eight home runs, 21 RBIs and 22 runs, and a team-leading 61 total bases and 12 walks. She finished the 2020 season ranked first in career batting average (.404) and third in slugging percentage (.846), fourth in on-base percentage (.515) and fifth in home runs (54).[
During her senior year in ]2021
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, Alo was named Big 12 Player of the Week for the week ending March 16, 2021. In Oklahoma's five games last week, Alo hit six home runs, going 7-for-17 with 10 RBIs and 25 total bases. She hit .412 with a 1.471 slugging percentage. Alo was again named Big 12 Player of the Week for the week ending March 30, 2021. She finished the weekend with a slash line of .800/.917/2.400 to go with two home runs, four extra-base hits and seven RBIs. She was also walked seven times in her 12 plate appearances but still managed to go 4-for-5 with 12 total bases.
On April 3, 2021, Alo's 40-game hitting streak
In baseball, a hitting streak is the number of consecutive official games in which a player appears and gets at least one base hit. According to the Official Baseball Rules, such a streak is not necessarily ended when a player has at least 1 pl ...
came to an end, after she finished the game hitting 0-for-1 with two walks. Her hitting streak was the longest in Oklahoma program history, and was three games short of the all-time NCAA Division I record of 43 games set by Sara Graziano in 1994. Alo, led the nation in home runs (27) and slugging percentage (1.120), ranked second in RBI (75), fifth in batting average (.479), and sixth in runs per game (1.23). Following an outstanding season, she was named Big 12 Player of the Year, first-Team All-Big 12, USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year
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and Softball America Player of the Year. She was also named Jim Thorpe Athlete of the Year. On June 5, 2021, during the 2021 Women's College World Series
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, Alo hit her 31st home run of the season, setting a new Oklahoma program record for home runs in a season, surpassing the previous record of 30 set by Lauren Chamberlain
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in 2012.
On February 20, 2022, Alo hit her 95th career home run, tying the NCAA record. On March 11, 2022, during the Rainbow Wahine Classic in her home state of Hawaii, she hit her 96th career home run, setting the new NCAA record, surpassing the previous record set by Lauren Chamberlain
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. She finished the regular season with a .476 batting average, 24 home runs, 11 doubles and 61 RBIs, including two grand slams. She led the nation in home runs (34), slugging percentage (1.212) and on-base percentage (.646) while ranking second in batting average (.512) and RBIs (85). Following an outstanding season, she was again named Big 12 Player of the Year, USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year and Softball America Player of the Year; she was also named a unanimous first-team All-American, NFCA National Player of the Year
The NFCA National Player of the Year is an award given by Schutt Sports to the best college softball
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, and won the Best College Athlete, Women's Sports ESPY award and the Honda Sports Award
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for softball. With a home run on June 4, during the second round of the 2022 Women's College World Series
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, she became the first player in NCAA Division I history to record three 30-home run seasons.
Alo finished her career at Oklahoma as the NCAA's all-time home run leader with 122 and finished second to Jenny Dalton-Hill
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(328) in career RBI with 323. She also is the NCAA leader in slugging percentage (.987) and total bases. She is Oklahoma's all-time leader in home runs, RBI, batting average and on-base percentage.
College statistics
Professional career
Alo was drafted first overall by the Smash It Sports Vipers
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The league is unrelated to the d ...
in the inaugural Women's Professional Fastpitch
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The league is unrelated to the d ...
draft. On June 13, 2022, she signed with the Vipers.
On November 3, 2022, she was traded by the Vipers to the Oklahoma City Spark
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in exchange for draft picks and cash considerations. She was subsequently signed to a three-year contract with the Spark.
She competed in the 2024 AUX Softball
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competition, where she finished in second place with 1,338 points on the leaderboard, trailing Bubba Nickles
Madilyn "Bubba" Ida-Marie Nickles-Camarena (born March 8, 1998) is an American professional softball player for the Bandits of the Athletes Unlimited Softball League (AUSL). She played college softball for the UCLA Bruins, where she was named an ...
by only six points in the closest finish in Athletes Unlimited Softball
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history. She finished the season with a .389 average, a .500 on-base percentage, and the best slugging percentage of .944. She also set an AUX single-season record with six home runs.
Savannah Bananas
On May 27, 2023, Alo became the first woman to play for the Savannah Bananas, getting an at bat
In baseball, an at bat (AB) or time at bat is a batter's turn batting against a pitcher. An at bat is different from a plate appearance. A batter is credited with a plate appearance regardless of what happens upon completion of his turn at bat, ...
in one of their games where she would strike out. In April 2024 it was announced that Alo became the first female member of the Savannah Bananas, by signing a one-month contract with the team.
International career
Alo represented the United States
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at the 2024 Women's Softball World Cup
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and won a silver medal.
Personal life
Alo was born to Levi and Andrea Alo. Her father played football
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and her mother played softball
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at Laney College
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.[ She is of Samoan and Hawaiian descent.]
References
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Living people
1998 births
American people of Native Hawaiian descent
American sportspeople of Samoan descent
Oklahoma Sooners softball players
Oklahoma City Spark players
People from Oahu
Sportspeople from Honolulu County, Hawaii
Softball players from Hawaii
Women's College World Series Most Outstanding Player Award winners